SPECIAL FEATURE: WTC AND THE PENTAGON ATTACKED. PART I.

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Note: For the victims of the incidents at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon:

May God grant that many were in a state of Grace.

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Note: For readers of the following special analysis, what should be borne in
mind at all times is that what is at stake in the world today is not physical
lives and deaths, but the Eternal verities such as Justice, Reason, Supernatural
Truth and the like. It's not a matter of a body count. It's a matter of Right
and Wrong.
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"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for
all who draw the sword will die by the sword."
- St. Matt. 26:52

(thanks to Bob Djurdjevic of TIM for the reference)

"This could open a real war,"

-Dr. Ely Karmon, senior research scholar at the International Police Institute
on Counter-terrorism, near Tel Aviv, commenting on the potential effects of
the U.S. reaction to the incidents at the WTC and the Pentaon

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Readers will notice that we didn't begin todays's special issue on yesterday's
remarkable events with "America is attacked." America wasn't attacked.
America isn't the World Trade Center, nor is it the Pentagon. At least those
things don't represent our America, nor should they for our readers.

The media spin masters would have us think that those things represent America,
only to encourage a misuse of our Patriotic sentiments...a misuse which has
been going on for far too long and which is bound, unfortunately, only to continue
as a result of yesterday's intentional plane crashes.

In the following Special Bulletin we intend to present some of our own views
and reprint some very interesting articles from around the world. Numerous are
the thoughts that come to mind as a result of incidents like these. Let's try
to take just a few in a logical order.

Some thoughts on Sanity.

Ours is an age of insanity. What's black passes for white, what's bad passes
for good, and what's ugly passes for beautiful. So what we should keep in mind
as we attempt to analyse a few of the elements of today's events is that insanity
is the norm, and sanity is the exception to the rule. No possibility is too
outlandish in our day and age, no silliness beyond that which can and should
be expected.

The first insanity is that people should live and work in buildings that are
1500 feet high. And an insanity that follows close on the heels of that one
is that our degree of adjustment to that first insanity is such that instinctively
our hearts are broken, our ire is provoked, and our sense of reality is replaced
with a sensation of the surreal when we witness and then contemplate the complete
destruction of a 110 story skyscraper.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that 12 million people would choose
to live and work on an 11 mile by 1 mile Island, piled on top of each other
1500 feet into the air, just to keep the world's financial fiction spinning
and steaming and churning, just to keep the pockets of the relatively very few
wealthy stuffed ever more and more to capacity while the rest of the world's
men and women remain enslaved as wage-earners and deprived of the liberty of
property ownership...that thought would be surreal. And a visit to Manhattan
by a man who was familiar with the countryside and who knew the land and who
was intimately aquainted with God's creation because he received his sustenance
from the land and not from a supermarket or a vending machine...that Manhattan
visit would throw him into a heart-breaking, anger-producing, surreal funk from
which he could recover only by an escape back to the land.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that thousands of people stuffed
into a 1500 foot tower controlled or managed or micromanaged the fictional (and
yet all-too-real in the destructive and opressive sense) financial transactions
of millions upon milions of people, who never set foot on Manhattan Island let
alone visit the Tower...that thought would be mystifying, mind-blowing, and
dis-orienting to the common man, much as today's events were so for so many
"viewers" and "listeners."

Unfortunately, in our world all these things are normal and what sends us
into shock is the disruption of these silly activities and the collapse of this
crazy icon of modernity. But in a sane world, assuming the tragic issue of the
loss of many innocent lives could be set aside for just a moment...in a sane
world, the elimination of most of the center of the world's usurious financial
system would and should bring a breath of fresh air, a sigh of relief, and a
hope for a better day.

But, obviously, in this, our insane world, none of those things are to be,
at least not in the immediate future. Most certainly, none of them will come
to pass if we allow ourselves to be mesmerized by the constant bleating of the
spin doctors and mind-control experts on the evening news who will sigh and
sympathize with all those who are suffering emotional shock over the destruction
of, as dear Peter Jennings put it several times last night, the "icon of
American Capitalism." As long as we allow our natural emotions of sympathy
for the victims of the airplane crashes, a distinct and separate issue, to be
mixed up with notions of defending "our way of life," we will remain
unable to objectively fix what it is that is wrong with our insane
world.

One thing's for sure. What's essentially (as opposed to incidentally) wrong
with our insane world is not the crashing of airplanes into the World Trade
Center. That is a symptom. The disease is far worse. From the perspective of
the natural law, the domination of the world by money is criminal and illicit.
And the concentration of the world's real wealth (land, machines, factories
and other means of production) into the hands of a few such that most are deprived
of any substantial property ownership, is as criminal and as illicit. These
things are illicit not because we all have a right to satiate ourselves with
material goods, but because a sufficiency of material goods is essential, for
all but the saints, in the exercise of virtue, and that sufficiency of goods
assumes that the goods are sufficient enough to allow a man and his family a
degree of independence from the powers-that-be...such that he can dispose of
his property in accord with the laws of God and not the laws of the world.

From the perspective of the Divine Law, the disease can be illustrated in
the following anecdote:

When Napoleon III of France in 1856 was discussing his numerous religious
initiatives with Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, the then-Bishop chided him for failing
to reform the French constitution such that Catholicism was recognied as the
religion of the State, instead of leaving it scandalously at the same level
as the other false religions. The Emperor replied to His excellency, "But
surely you do not believe that such a state of things is suitable for the present
day, and that the time has come to establish this religious rule that you ask
of me?" The Cardinal merely replied, that from a political standpoint he
was not competent to argue with such a great statesman (!) as the emperor, but
as a Bishop he had simply this to say: "If the time has not yet come for
Our Lord to reign, well! the time has not yet come for governments to last."

Well, if the time has not come for Our Lord to reign in this country and this
world, then the time has not come for this country and this world to last.

Some thoughts about Motivation.

Another aspect of the disease can be illustrated by a consideration of what
may have motivated the deliberate destruction of the WTC and the attempted destruction
of the Pentagon. If we believe what we are made to believe by our media masters,
then we will assume that the airplane crashes were caused by crazed Muslims
attempting to strike back at the "Great Satan" or make a profound
statement about the plight of the world's Arabs as illustrated in the cases
of Iraq and Palestine. Let's take this supposition for granted for a moment,
and let's also leave aside for the moment the question of the morality of the
actions carried out and the righteousness or lack thereof of those who carried
them out. For those questions are again questions of symptoms. They are not
questions of diseases. The disease is, even from this perspective, far more
profound.

If we lived in a sane world, and bound ourselves by our own rules of logic,
we would consider very seriously the question of whether those who caused these
accidents are "sane" or "insane," whether these hypothetical
"crazy Muslims" are really "crazy Muslims" and not "justifyably
angry Arabs." If on the one hand we conclude that "anyone who would
do such an unspeakable thing must be insane," then our sentiments should
be confined to profound sadness and sympathy for those who were killed or injured.
We should not be filled with rage and demand the nuclear obliteration of several
small Arab states. After all, following the logic of the "criminally insane"
thesis, the poor men didn't really know what they were doing. By all means arrest
them, even execute them in order to prevent them from doing further harm. But
they really didn't "mean it" the way a sane person can "mean
it," so there's no point in getting so worked up. After all, annually we
turn hundereds of criminals over to social services, or turn them loose on the
streets, because, after all, they didn't really intend to do any harm. And they
can be rehabilitated. Thus should be our thought process. But even as we label
these unfortunate maniacs "insane," the establishment gears up the
War Machine and begins to thirst for blood.

So there must be something else going on. Let's look at the other perspective.
Surely it's a case of us working ourselves into a frenzy because these madmen
(er, gentlemen) knew very well what they were doing, and thus will be made to
account for every single life that was lost as a result of their behavior. Because
they were fully conscious, and knew exactly what they were doing, it is right
and just that we bring them and their supporters to task for this unspeakable
series of actions. Premeditated, intentional crimes are punished and the criminals
will be brought to justice!

But this second alternative - the perpetrators knew what they were doing and
were not "out of their minds" - raises a number of questions. If those
who will be held accountable (!) (and we assume that because of the cries to
hold them accountable that they are therefore being given the benefit of the
doubt as to sanity, forethought, intention...etc.) knew exactly what they were
doing, why do we not stop to ask ourselves how it is that a sane human being
or group of human beings could bring themselves to sacrifice their own lives,
and hundreds of other innocent lives, merely to create a bit of havoc? Why do
we not seriously consider what it is that would drive them to orchestrate such
a series of cataclysmic events if we are giving them the benefit of being considered
sane, reflective, intelligent individuals?

Because the consequences of such a consideration are unacceptable.

Some thoughts on the Consequences of Objectivity.

The first and most abstract consequence of such a consideration would lead
us to utterly abandon Positivism in all its forms. Anti-terrorism would not
be a question of a better luggage x-ray machine, but rather a question of how
to not provoke potential terrorists, or, even better, how to declare war on
Islam and beat it back into Arabia and Mongolia, leaving it with a sore and
painful reminder of what happens when idolaters take on the Christian West,
or finally, better still, how to declare war on Islam and wage at the same time
a war of independence on behalf of the U.S. government and the world financial
system against international Judeo-Masonry. But these thoughts assume that we
are ready to consider human actions and human events as the outcome of intentional
and deliberate thoughts, which thoughts are the outcome of considered and firmly-held
beliefs. But we are not currently capable of considering things from this standpoint.
Terrorism is simply "irrational," so we will either irrationally post
National Guardsmen in the streets of Washington D.C., in anticipation of a terrorist
who will drive up to the White House in a taxi, or better yet bomb someone into
oblivion, regardless of how many civilians are killed and regardless of how
much such an action will serve to increase the motivation, determination, and
ire of the next terrorist.

No, that actions procede from thoughts which proceed from beliefs is not a
doctrine that is consistent with the modern and American ideology. And thus
any attempt to discover, in a coherent and philosophically consistent creed,
the principles which should guide our response, and the principles which would
equip us to rationally interpret yesterday's events, will be impossible. Any
possibility of a rational response to the events of yesterday is automatically
ruled out. If we get one, it will be a coincidence, in spite of our ideology,
not because of it.

Secondly, and pulling the focus in a bit more narrow, to consider that the
Arabs might have something to be upset about is to give undue consideration
to a group that does not deserve it. An enraged spouse can slice her husband's
appendage off and be considered "justifiably angry;" a distraught
mother can drown her infant children in a bathtub and be considered "understandably
traumatized;" crazed blacks can beat Reginald Denny over the head with
a brick in Los Angeles in 1992 because they are experiencing "righteous
anger" as a result of years of oppression; gleeful members of the Israeli
Defense Forces can drive bulldozers through Palestinians' homes because they
are taking "reasonable defensive measures" and are "fairly reclaiming
land given them by Yahweh;" ruthless blacks can burn, pillage, and loot
Cincinnati, and in response the Mayor can call a "task force" which
will redress the "legitimate grievances" of the rioters regardless
of whom they might have killed or what they might have destroyed; and the ANC's
Tribunal of Truth and Reconciliation can grant unconditional amnesty to four
blacks who were convicted of the 1993 stabbing and stoning of Amy Biehl, an
American high-school exchange student in South Africa, because their crimes
were deemed "political, not criminal...under the Promotion of National
Unity and Reconciliation Act." But when an organization "lashes out"
at two of the symbols of American military and financial might in what is obviously
a desperate attempt to avenge any number of injustives, peaceniks from left
and right mutate into Hawks and begin crowing for retailiation against it-doesn't-matter-whom,
who can be found at we-don't-know-where.

Retailation, rather than introspection, is the order of the day, for two reasons:
1) the individuals who arranged the airliner crashes were ostensibly neither
themselves, nor were they acting on behalf of groups of, homosexuals, lesbians,
Jews, politically acceptable ethnic minorities, or other "victim"
groups who are entitled to sympathy and understanding when years of "oppression"
drive them to lash out, even in otherwise totally unacceptable, uncivilized,
and completely unjustifiable ways; and, 2) the actions taken by the individuals
or groups in question did not further an attack on Christian civilization, and
therefore the groups and/or actions are not entitled to any special sympathy,
understanding, or mitigating or extenuating thoughts or circumstances. Rather,
two of the most concentrated centers of world anti-Christian activity and ideology
were destroyed or damaged - thus, there can be no question of balance, thoughtfulness,
thoroughness, or, God forbid, mercy for those who orchestrated these events.

Further consequences of such an examination into the motivation of the attack,
again following the thought that we should believe what we are told or what
is implied thus far about who the perpetrators are (crazed Muslims or angry
Arabs), would probably reveal that the United States can by no means claim to
be surprised, shocked, caught off-guard, or mystified by yesterday's events.
If it was the Arabs, is it any surprise that they are begging the god they worship
to reign death and destruction down upon their enemy and their enemy's much
bigger and more powerful puppet state? The killed or injured workers who occupied
the office spaces in the Pentagon and the WTC, and the brave men and women who
were killed or injured attempting to save some of the early victims, are indeed
collateral casualties, not direct and intended victims. The intended victims
were the financial and military power of a nation that, should introspection
ever become the order of the day, cannot claim ignorance nor innocence of having
earned the hatred and resentment of the non-Western European world.

The sentiment in the Arab world was clear BEFORE the incidents at the WTC
and the Pentagon. The following abridged article which ran in the only English
paper in Saudi Arabia (see http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=5308) is instructive:

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JEDDAH, 11 September  Frustration is growing in Saudi Arabia with
Washington's blind support for Israel, and the Saudi press yesterday blasted
the administration of President George Bush for failing to take action to stop
the Israeli attacks against the Palestinians...

Last week Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said during a regional tour
that Arab patience was wearing thin and urged Washington to shoulder its responsibilities
to curb Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.

Enough is enough, Prince Saud told reporters in Amman after delivering
a message from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd to Jordan's King
Abdallah II on ways to restore calm in the region and consolidate Arab unity
against Israel.

The Saudi press is unanimous in its condemnation of the American position.

Washington does not appear to be sufficiently concerned by the
deteriorating situation, which suggests that it is giving its blessing to Israel's
increasingly aggressive behavior, Al-Jazirah newspaper said in an editorial.

The paper said Washington's silence was no longer acceptable, unless
the US approves of the collective killings of Palestinians.

Al-Riyadh daily warned the United States and the West of the negative consequences
of their support for Zionists.

America and the West provide material, political and military support
to the Zionists, because they believe there is no threat to their interests
in the Arab world, the paper said in a front-page editorial. But it warned
that latent Arab forces observing the situation might react in an
unpredictable way if inaction persisted at the official level...

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And for a glimpse of Arab sentiment after the fact, those who have nothing
to lose by speaking freely responded to yesterday's events with an equal degree
of candor, which doubtless some readers will find shocking(from an 11 September
AFP, Cairo, wire story):

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Egyptian students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets
stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo Tuesday evening, celebrating
a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington.

"Bullseye," commented two taxi drivers as they watched footage of
the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York shrouded in plumes of
smoke after two presumably hijacked planes slammed into them earlier in the
day.

Another Egyptian man, Gawish Abdel Karim, told AFP he was pleased with the
wave of violence in which another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington,
the heart of the US defence establishment.

"Nice work," said Abdel Karim, who drives a car for an Asian embassy.

"The Americans have forgotten that God exists. They have us by the throat
and now they find themselves in a science fiction film scenario, but this time
Rambo's not there to save the White House."

Anti-US sentiment has mushroomed on the streets of Egypt and other Arab
countries over its widely-perceived support for Israel over the Palestinians
in the past 11 months of violence in the Middle East...

Abdel Karim hailed the attacks as "the best thing that's happened since
the October War," referring to the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war when Egyptian
forces made a surprise attack on the Israeli army across the Suez Canal...

...people on the streets do not necessarily see themselves as US allies.

"The Americans are cowards. They use other countries to hit us. They don't
have the courage to meet us face to face," said Khalil Matar, 43, who works
in a state-run soap factory. "The myth of the indestructible United States
has gone up in smoke."

Polytechnic student Amira Ryad also vented her anger.

"We saw the tower crash down," she said, referring to one of the
two towers of the World Trade Center, both of which were razed by the attack.

"I only wish (US President) George Bush and his dear little baby (Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon had been buried in there too," she added.

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Well, in response to the question posed by the Saudi paper, there's no reason
to assume that the U.S. disapproves of the collective killings of the Palestinians.
In light of what has transpired in Palestine AT LEAST over the past 11 months,
if not since 1967 or even since 1948, can it really be a surprise that people,
who are driven to a state of desperation, act in desperate ways? This is not
to condone the act, nor is it even to analyse the act. It is merely to point
out that in the Arab-Israeli conflict we are dealing, to look for instance at
the Arab side, with human nature; a human nature which first of all does have
a right to existence; a human nature which furthermore does have a right to
the secure possession of land, homes, food, and freedom of movement; a human
nature which could understandably, even if not "justifiably," be driven
to the point of total despair as a result of the inaction of the international
community - in spite of that community's constant refrain of politically correct
and pious platitudes about tolerance and sensitivity; this human nature furthermore
that is a nature which is not pacified by the Grace of Baptism and the consequent
virtue of charity and enlightening of the intellect; this human nature that
is, moreover, hardened and confirmed in its baser instincts by the doctrines
of a false religion which justify the taking of collateral innocent life should
doing so serve a higher purpose. So if we ever get to the point in this country
where we would like to reform our foreign policy, and implement some kind of
procedure which might induce us to examine the FACTS of recent history and consider
the implications of those facts, rather than continue merely with the very intelligent
and profound "business as usual" (which translates into "behave
the way we want you to or you will be bombed"), we might arrive at a degree
of political wisdom which would allow us to see yesterday's events as unfortunate,
but not unexpected; saddening, but not shocking; and demanding of introspection
and a just response, but not requiring mindless retaliation.

On this general head a well-done piece by Bob Djurdjevic, who runs Truth in
Media out of Arizona, and is one of the world's most informed journalists on
the true situation in the Balkans, makes the point that it is not just the Arabs
who resent U.S. meddling in the affairs of otherwise sovereign and independent
countries (excerpts from his Sept. 11th piece at www.truthinmedia.org):

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...When the "world's only superpower" and its allies bombed and killed
thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq and Serbia, Americans were told it was
just "collateral damage." After all, we, the "champions of democracy
and the free world," were only fighting the murderous regimes of Saddam
Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. Some civilian casualties were "regrettable,
but unavoidable," the Pentagon, NATO or State Dept. spokesmen told us.

Now the tables have turned. Terrorism begets terrorism. Unnamed terrorists,
presumed to be "Islamic fundamentalists," have now killed thousands
of innocent Americans while fighting, what they think are, the murderous regimes
of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Now Americans know firsthand some of the
terror the Baghdad or Belgrade residents felt when NATO bombers unloaded their
deadly cargo on them. The only thing missing is the terrorists' spokesmen telling
us now that "it was just "collateral damage;" that "some
civilian casualties were regrettable, but unavoidable."

What we did to Iraq and to Serbia was a case of state terrorism. What unnamed
terrorists did to us today was retaliation to state terrorism. "Collateral
damage" has come home to roost. "What goes around, comes around."
"He who plays with fire, gets burned by fire"...

So whenever you hear a politician or a media personality say that this attack
was unprovoked; that this was a murder of innocent men, women
and children; that it was a strike at the American way of life
- and no doubt you'll see and hear much of that in the next hours and days -
try a role reversal. Imagine that you're listening to an Iraqi or a Serb politician
using those words in reference to victims of American bombs. And then you' ll
get a fuller picture of what transpired today.

Meanwhile, may God have mercy upon the souls of all innocent people who died
today as "collateral damage" of the Clinton/Bush arrogant foreign
policy. The Washington-led New World Order has now come home to roost. For,
"all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

UNQUOTE

Some thoughts about Our Way of Life.

It's amazing to note just how fast any cataclysmic event can turn into a very
impressive and polished ratings grab for the big networks. Slick digital images,
fluttering electronic Old Glories, and sharp beveled texts highlighting the
"Attack on America" are produced by the mind-control mucky-mucks at
Crap Broadcasting System, Nothing But Crap, and Agency Broadcasting Crap literally
within minutes of the occurence of any event - no matter how gut-wrenching -
that will ensure Americans are glued to their state propaganda boxes around
the clock.

Even more noteworthy, however, is that the media machine instantly - INSTANTLY
- went into overdrive calling yesterday's events an "Attack on America."
It was universally declared that the entire country was under siege because
three planes crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon. There were no airborne troops
descending on major cities, no tanks rolling in from Mexico, no missiles flying
toward key strategic sites, no Soviet ships off the East Coast lobbing shells
into the Carolinas, and no strategic bombers strafing Seattle or San Francisco.
The commandeered jet liners didn't even strike Detroit, Hollywood, Disneyland,
or the Levi's or Coca Cola factories. And yet within minutes this was an attack
on America and a grave threat to our way of life.

While their can be no doubt that the loss of life at both crash sites is regrettable
and of particular gravity are the deaths of the brave men and women killed in
action trying to rescue the early victims, the best way for most of the rest
of America to preserve its way of life would be to turn off the television.
Then throw IT out the 110th flood of the nearest skyscraper.

For the television and those that control what it displays are more threatening
that 100 jetliners bound for American cities. And that on two levels.

First, it is unnatural for all of us, this writer included, to be so intrigued
by tragedy, death, disaster and mayhem. Or perhaps it is too natural...the way
drinking and whoring are in a sense "natural" to men. If society exists
to help man better himself (granting a true standard of betterment), as Aristotle
and St. Thomas have it, then its purpose is not served if one of the pillars
of American family life - the TV - serves only to enhance and encourage a tendency
latent in the deep recesses of human nature which is less than commendable.

Turn off the TV and go outside. Unless you live in Manhattan, the sky is clear,
the birds are chirping, there is a nice breeze, and God is still Good and life
is still sane. Being glued to the TV, as unhealthy as it is in routine circumstances,
is positively psychologically disturbing and damaging during events like these.
God has built into human nature a certain ability to adapt to circumstances
and accept His Designs, no matter how distasteful they seem in the abstract.
Those poor souls who were trapped in the upper floors of the WTC before the
collapse of its towers went through a doubtless horrifying few moments, but
it's over, Deo Gratias, and those whom Providence took to their Eternal rest
or torment are there now. Can there be anything at all positive about forcing
250 million Americans to contemplate the thought of, "How would I manage
jumping from the 110th floor if I were in that circumstance?" Can there
be any value in having that horrific possibility ever before you, in both waking
and sleeping moments, as a result of the constant, in-your-face barrage of coverage
provided by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and more (as if one isn't enough)?
That, truly, is a thought better answered with "I'll cross that bridge
when I come to it." Ever notice how cutting your finger is far less psychologically
troubling when it happens than when you contemplate the thought of it? The same
applies, only to a far greater degree, to these catastrophic incidents. There
is something warped about 24hr coverage of these disasters. Something that gives
people with a shred of conscience a tinge of guilt - like being a little too
interested in the carnage on the roadside when driving by an auto accident.
Victims are entitled to a degree of Privacy, and the TV makes catastrophe into
a spectator sport. No one who is honest can deny feeling a tingle of "excitement"
when watching the real-life version of a cross between Towering Inferno and
Earthquake - even if that excitement is a fearful and negative one. But that
excitement is best kept in check, not exploited. Unless there's an alterior
motive.

Which beings us to the second and more important threat that comes from the
TV. It's the spin. There's something essential about convincing Americans that
these events are attacks on their way of life, and how better to do that than
to broadcast, audibly and visualy, the incessant message that "America
is under attack," taking full advantage of the captive audience which is
rivited to the TV screen throughout the day and into the night for probably
less-than-pure motives.

It is entirely possible that an objective witness of all that transpired yesterday
would conclude that someone or some group of people is very resentful and very
angry about American power and might, financial and military. As we noted, no
real population centers were attacked. A stadium full of innocent people was
not incinerated, and there was no move to sink a cruise liner just for the fun
of it. Yet within minutes, this was an "Attack on America" and "our
way of life." Well let's consider for a moment what the World Trade Center
has to do with the majority of Americans' way of life. Working in a skyscraper?
A fraction of the population. Working in Manhattan? Another fraction. The questions
could go on - always with the same answer. How many people didn't even know
what the World Trade Center was or where it was until yesterday? How many even
now have no idea what went on in the World Trade Centeron a day to day basis?

And just what is it about our way of life that stands to be eliminated in
the event that the "attacks" continue? Imagine that the Fed, its subordinate
banks, the White House, the Congress, the State Dept., and the OEOB go up in
flames tomorrow or next week. Barring again the unfortunate loss of life that
would accompany such events, what impact would all of it have, aside from causing
a panic in America because of the impact which everyone expects but would never
come barring the panic in the first place? Anyone remember when the U.S. Govt.
shut down a few years back because it couldn't pay the bills? Didn't make an
ounce of difference to anyone, expect for those who were lucky enough to get
a day off out of it.

No, the "threat to our way of life" is either a threat to Capitalism
or a complete - but emotionally convincing and well-fabricated - farce. Granted,
if there were reason to believe that the "mystery" terrorists were
interested in murdering every American, we'd be worried here too as well. But
there is nothing to suggest that. But there is everything to suggest that whoever
is behind this attack wanted to bring down the psychological seats of America's
power or benefit from the results of the attempt. And either way the response,
"The Attack on America!" is the perfect slogan to rally the American
public around the cause of "the American Way of Life," which, regardless
of which specific, distasteful element of the New World Order to which the phrase
might refer, we can be sure, is not a reference to our traditional qualities
of honesty, fairness, hard work, and the making of good Martinis.

For Catholics the glory of a nation is in its virtue, and, objectively considering
the ostensible purpose and routine activities which took place or take place
at the WTC and the Pentagon, there's no need to worry about an elimination of
the centers of American virtue and morality. Even for "real Americans"
the strength of the nation is in its spirit, its rugged individualism, its enterprising
citizens. So what, after all, does the WTC and the Pentagon have to do with
"Our Way of Life" unless it be thought by the netwrok spin doctors
that, either 1) there really is a threat to global capitalism or the U.S.'s
global enforcement of the NWO, which they genuinely if unintentionally want
to protect or, 2) there is a need to whip Americans into a frenzy over these
events in order to accomplish with them whatever those who caused them desire
to accomplish.

Possibility 1. If there really was an attempted attack on global capitalism
and/or the American habit of bombing small nations into submission, then that
is an attack which we as Americans should take seriously. If you are punched
in the face as a result of a comment you make to a passer-by, the reaction of
the rational man is BOTH to defend himself and meanwhile to examine what he
might have done to provoke the blow in the first place. Can it be that global
capitalism and U.S. imperialism is something which is resented by a good portion
of the people who are directly or indirectly harmed by it? If so, there is nothing
MORE patriotic we could do than to examine our nation's economic and political
conscience and make changes as necessary. But we can be certain that an examination
of conscience is the last thing that will occur to those who govern us by sound
bytes and Executive Orders. Rather, the principles will remain taken for granted
and our natural instinct to defend the status quo will work to reinforce the
nation's commitment to financial and political domination of the world.

Possibility 2. It would be a mistake for intelligent men to rule out the possibility
that things are not what they seem. Things are rarely what they seem even in
normal times, and these are not normal times. At this point in history, as Catholics
who are on the blackest page of the New World Order's blackest of black lists,
we have no reason to believe that we are being told the truth and that things
are always on the up and up. We who are traditional in the Faith take this spirit
for granted when dealing with the Vatican. Are Wall Street and Washington more
to be trusted? Do literally centuries of usury and at least one century (and
two World Wars) worth of godless and conscience-less Empire conspire to create
a scrupulous conscience? We merely offer, then, this possibility, which in the
days months and weeks ahead should not be ruled out by thoughtful persons: whatever
the official story becomes, there remains the possibility that that official
story will be a cover for something else, and that there are individuals who
benefit from the results or the effects of the alleged "attack on our way
of life" who are other than the hypothetical crazy Arabs. Or the "crazy
Arabs" themselves may have, as a result of blind, if understandable, rage
played right into the hands of those who stand to gain from whatever comes of
these catastrophic events. We once had a President who profited politically
and geopolitically from the destruction of a fleet of American ships in Hawaii,
and he profited so much that he didn't stop the fleet's destruction because
the supposed gains from the fleet's destruction outweighed the loss of American
lives aboard those ships. Have our current learders leared the lesson they should
have learned from that tragedy? Have they matured and grown wiser since the
first day of infamy? Are they less capable than he was of treason? It is notable
that yesterday is already being called another "day of infamy," and
we may be allowed to hope that the political scheming and wheeling and dealing
which surrounded, preceded and followed the first day of infamy does not follow,
and did not precede, this one. We may be allowed to hope, but it would be naieve
to assume.

On this head here are a few useful points of reference from that master of
secret history, Michal A. Hoffman, II:

QUOTE

Lest We Forget: A Brief History of US Government Directed and Fomented
Terror

World Trade Center Bombing 1993:

"One of the largest acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. history was the
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. As it turned out, the FBI
was fully aware of the bomb plot before the attack took place. The Muslim group
involved had been infiltrated by Emad Salem, a former Egyptian intelligence
agent who was hired by the FBI and ultimately paid $1 million. The FBI even
provided the Egyptian with a timer for the bomb, prompting the Chicago Tribune
to publish a report headlined, "FBI Tipster Said He Built NY Bomb"
(Tribune, Dec. 15, 1993).

February 15, 1898, an explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in
Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war with Spain. The
USS Maine that sultry Tuesday night contained 350 crew and officers.At 9:40
p.m. the ship's forward end abruptly lifted itself from the water. Along the
pier, passersby could hear a rumbling explosion. Within seconds, another eruption--this
one deafening and massive--splintered the bow, sending anything that wasn't
battened down, and most that was, flying more than 200 feet into the air....
In all, 266 of the 350 men aboard the Maine were killed.

The American press was quick to point to an external explosion--a mine or torpedo--as
the cause of the tragedy. An official U.S. investigation agreed. On April 25,
1898, Congress formally declared war on Spain. By summer's end, Spain had ceded
Cuba, along with the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam, to the United States.
In 1976, Adm. Hyman Rickover of the U.S. Navy mounted yet another investigation
into the cause of the Maine disaster. His team of experts found that the ship's
demise was self- inflicted.

The Lusitania, 1915:

The Lusitania was a British cargo and passenger ship that was torpedoed and
sank due to German submarine activity in May of 1915, just shy of ten years
after she began her trans-Atlantic journeying. She was used to ferry goods and
people between England and the United States. The Lusitania was very popular
because of her speed and luxurious accommodations. She was considered "the
acme of comfort," and deemed a "floating palace" by her passengers
(Simpson 7).

As World War I escalated and German submarines took a prevalent role in the
seas; Lusitania set out from New York on May 1, 1915, with the intent of delivering
material to England in spite of threats of sinking by German authorities.

Six days later, on May 7, 1915, the Lusitania took a solid hit whose sound
was described by passengers as a "peal of thunder," a "dull thud-like
sound," or "like a million-ton hammer hitting a steel boiler a hundred
feet high and a hundred feet long" (Hickey and Smith 184-185). Though they
did not explode, water rushed into the first and second boiler rooms and caused
the boat to shake from side to side. She then rose a little before a second
massive explosion took her down into the sea.

The exact cause of the second explosion is a point of contention. The
Lusitania shows evidence that she may have been torpedoed a second or even a
third time - but the second, most destructive, explosion may not have been caused
by a German torpedo, but rather may have come from inside the ship. The reason
behind this speculation is that the Lusitania's cargo can be called into question.
She had originally said she would take, along with her passengers, platinum,
bullion, diamonds and various other precious stones, but these things were never
found and port records do not list them either. She is believed to have instead
carried, under the guise of bales of fur and cheese boxes, 3-inch shells and
millions of rounds of rifle ammunition. If true, these materials comprised "a
contraband and explosive cargo which was forbidden by American law and...should
never have been placed on a passenger liner" (Simpson 157-158).

The torpedoes completed the destruction of the ship by their own power or they
were aided by internal ammunition explosions. The ship sank within twenty minutes
of when she was hit and took with her 1,201 people - and left only 764 to be
saved by those who responded to her SOS (Simpson 9). Many American lives were
lost as a result of the sinking, and because the Lusitania was never officially
in government service, the United States believed the attack on her "was
contrary to international law and the conventions of all civilized nations"
(Simpson 8-9). The sinking of the Lusitania caused serious tension between the
United States and Germany and led to America's declaration of war against Germany.

Pearl Harbor, 1941:

In the summer of 1940 Roosevelt ordered the Pacific to relocate from the West
Coast to Hawaii. When its commander, Admiral Richardson, protested that Pearl
Harbor offered inadequate protection from air and torpedo attack he was replaced.
On October 7 1940 Navy IQ analyst McCollum wrote an eight-point memo for Roosevelt
on how to force Japan into war with U.S., including an American oil embargo
against Japan. All of them were eventually accomplished.

On 23 June 1941 one day after Hitler's attack on Russia Secretary of the Interior
and FDR's Advisor Harold Ickes wrote a memo for the President in which he pointed
out that "there might develop from the embargoing of oil to Japan such
a situation as would make it not only possible but easy to get into this war
in an effective way. And if we should thus indirectly be brought in, we would
avoid the criticism that we had gone in as an ally of communistic Russia."

On 18 October Ickes noted in his diary: "For a long time I have believed
that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan."

The U.S. had cracked key Japanese codes before the attack. FDR received "raw"
translations of all key messages. On 24 September 1941 Washington deciphered
a message from the Naval Intelligence HQ in Tokyo to Japan's consul-general
in Honolulu, requesting grid of exact locations of U.S. Navy ships in the harbor.
Commanders in Hawaii were not warned.

Sixty years later the U.S. Government still refuses to identify or declassify
many pre-attack decrypts on the grounds of "national security."

On November 25 Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary that FDR said an
attack was likely within days, and asked "how we should maneuver them into
the position of firing the first shot without too much danger to ourselves.
In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first
shot, we realized that in order to have the full support of the American people
it was desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that
there should remain no doubt in anyone's mind as to who were the aggressors."

On November 25 FDR received a "positive war warning" from Churchill
that the Japanese would strike against America at the end of the first week
in December. This warning caused the President to do an abrupt about-face on
plans for a time-buying modus vivendi with Japan and it resulted in Secretary
of State Hull's deliberately provocative ultimatum of 26 November 1941 that
guaranteed war.

On November 26 Washington ordered both US aircraft carriers, the Enterprise
and the Lexington, out of Pearl Harbor "as soon as possible". This
order included stripping Pearl of 50 planes or 40 percent of its already inadequate
fighter protection. On the same day Cordell Hull issued his ultimatum demanding
full Japanese withdrawal from Indochina and all China. U.S. Ambassador to Japan
called this "The document that touched the button that started the war."

On November 29 Hull told United Press reporter Joe Leib that Pearl Harbor would
be attacked on December 7. The New York Times reported on December 8 ("Attack
Was Expected," p. 13) that the U.S. knew of the attack a week earlier.
On December 1 Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI, 12th Naval District in San
Francisco found the missing Japanese fleet by correlating reports from the four
wireless news services and several shipping companies that they were getting
signals west of Hawaii.

On 5 December, 1941 FDR wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, "There
is always the Japanese to consider. Perhaps the next four or five days will
decide the matters."

Oklahoma City, 1995

Both the Federal government and the ADL were "tracking" Timothy McVeigh
long before the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995. McVeigh and at least a half-dozen
other men planned the bombing while encamped at "Elohim City," a heavily-infiltrated
"Christian Patriot" community in rural Oklahoma. ATF informant Carol
Howe infiltrated Elohim City before the Oklahoma bombing. ATF internal documents
prove Howe was an informant who overheard McVeigh and his accomplices plotting
to blow up the Alfred E. Murrah building. Howe sent over 70 reports to her superior,
ATF Special Agent Angela Finley, warning that a number of people at Elohim City
were planning to bomb a federal office building in Oklahoma City.

Howe was not the only government agent privy to the Oklahoma bombing however.
The shadowy Aryan Republican Army (ARA) gang of bank robbers were also complicit.
Aryan Nations "East Coast Ambassador" and FBI informant Mark Thomas
assisted ARA leader Peter Langan, an asset of the US Secret Service. Langan,
the son of a US Marine Intelligence officer, was arrested for a robbery in 1992.
The U.S. Secret Service intervened, however, arranging for Langan to be released
on merely a signature bond. Langan subsequently formed the ARA, which was, from
its inception, a government black op. For example, the ARA never encountered
any bank guards or other police during any of their twenty successful bank robberies.
Langan and his lieutenant were only arrested in connection with the robberies
after independent investigators began to publicize Elohim City's ties to McVeigh.
It was at Elohim where the ARA leaders, among whom was "John Doe No. 2"
(Michael Brescia), held three meetings to plan bank robberies and other activities.
(Langan's lieutenant conveniently "committed suicide" while in custody).

Many government black ops use Halloween Satanists as a cover for their crimes.
In Oklahoma City it was "white supremacists" and "neo-Nazi"
patsies. The orchestration was finite and detailed, right down to the appointment
of District Attorney Robert Macy -- the prosecutor who allegedly stymied all
efforts to get to the bottom of the Oklahoma City conspiracy --to head the special
Grand Jury proceedings to investigate a conspiracy. This is the same Robert
Macy who, when asked by Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key why Macy didn't proceed
with an investigation, allegedly replied, "They won't let me."

Macy's Grand Jury delivered no indictments of ATF agents or of shadowy right
wing, neo-Nazi "useful idiots" like Chevie Kehoe. No, the only one
indicted was the investigative journalist David Hoffman (no relation to this
writer), author of the seminal book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics
of Terror (Feral House, 1998). Rare book collectors take note: the entire remaining
stock of David Hoffman's book was pulped and destroyed under legal threat from
lawyers for agents of the FBI. Chevie Kehoe murdered gun dealer William Mueller
and his entire family in Arkansas in 1996 because Mueller had inside information
on Timothy McVeigh and the OK City bombing conspiracy.

As part of the "Revelation of the Method," recall that Aryan Nations
member and L.A. daycare center shooter Buford Furrow "miraculously"
eluded the largest police dragnet in the history of the LAPD, to report directly
to his FBI handlers in Las Vegas in full view of the television cameras.

By the same process, Chevie Kehoe of Yaak, Montana and his partner, Danny Lee
of Yukon, Oklahoma, killed the Mueller family while "dressed in FBI raid
outfits" (Spokesman-Review, [Spokane, Wash.] April 8, 1999, p. B-3). In
both these cases a symbolic hint was being intentionally sent to the public
concerning who Kehoe and Furrow's real handlers are. At the time of the Mueller
murders Kehoe was a resident of the Shadows Motel in Spokane, Washington, where
he had been staying on and off since 1994. Kehoe was often visited at the motel
by a child rapist and Aryan Nations activist who was also a master gunsmith
and machinist.

"Witnesses also believe McCrea and Kehoe met Timothy McVeigh at the Shadows
Motel shortly before the April, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing...A former manager
of the motel has reported seeing McVeigh visiting Kehoe there a few weeks before
the Oklahoma City bombing.

"...But the possible link between the Shadows Motel, Kehoe and McVeigh
has been given little, if any, attention by the FBI...With McVeigh and his friend
Terry Nichols convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, there is reluctance to
reopen the investigation, federal officials say."
(Spokesman-Review, April 11, 1999, pp. B-1 and B-6).

Here is a frank admission of the government's refusal to apprehend other guilty
parties in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. The conviction of the
scapegoats satisfies the Federal police. Why? Because any further indictments
would tend to risk losing control over perpetrators who might reveal embarrassing
details and unaccounted for facts that point to orchestration of the bombing
by the Federal government itself.

Elohim City was presided over by Robert Millar, himself an informant who reported
to FBI Senior Agent Peter Rickel, according to June, 1997 court testimony. Millar's
son-in-law, Jim Ellison, was also a Federal informant. The "chief of security"
at Elohim City was Andreas Strassmeier, a German intelligence officer who was
in direct contact with McVeigh in the weeks preceding the bombing and who Carol
Howe implicated as a co-conspirator.

Federal Judge Richard Matsch prohibited Howe from testifying at McVeigh's trial,
saying her testimony might "confuse" the jurors. After Howe went to
the media with her evidence, the government indicted her on a trumped up charge
of explosives possession. She was put on trial in August, 1997. Her attorney
showed that Howe possessed the explosives at the direction of the ATF and Howe
was acquitted of all charges by a jury.

What then is the purpose behind these incidents, if indeed Possibility 2 is
even to be contemplated? God knows. In PART II we'll look at some of the probable
consequences of the WTC and Pentagon attacks and readers can draw their own
conclusions as to just to what lengths the Establishment might be willing to
go to provide the scenario for implementation of those various effects.

It should be borne in mind, meanwhile, that what we are given to consume by
our media and political masters is just that: food for consumption. Not that's
it is therefore false. But it is definitely made for the public, and we can
be sure that those who determine what it is we will and will not be told do
not make that determination in a vacuum. Whether the constant blaring of "America's
way of life" and the "Attack on America" is an honest attempt
by the establishment to defend capitalism and America's foreign policy, or it
is the convenient result of a catastrophic (and therefore very useful, politically,
emotionally and psychologically) series of more or less intentional events,
which provide our fearless leaders with the opportunity to excite us into a
panic over defending our way of life, is not really the point. The point is
that the public dis-information services have turned the collapse of the World
Trade Center and an airline crash at the Pentagon into an assault on all that
Americans are supposed to hold dear. And you may be sure that in the process
of all of this we are being instructed regarding just what it is we should hold
dear. Given who is doing the instructing, be very, very very skeptical.

Christus regnat!

God rest the souls of the victims, and God grant this nation the grace to examine
its own behavior in the light of the Divine and Natural Law.